how to live to 100

We've had a couple role models in our life. Sometimes it's a role model of what not to do and the role model of what to do. Growing up, I had my mom and dad. My dad drank about 5 drinks every day and smoked like a chimney, super stressed out, on blood pressure medication, and never exercised. The big thing about my dad is he always talked about— he had a dream about what he was going to do when he retired. And his ship came in, and that's all he would talk about. He worked, worked, worked, worked, worked, and he worked so that when he retired, he could go out on this boat and fish fish and be able to golf and do all the things that he wasn't doing now. My mom, on the other hand, walked every day, ate healthy, did all the housework, lived in a 2-story house, didn't work outside the house, but kept herself healthy. And, you know, my dad was always excited about his ship coming in because the company he worked for was going to sell, and then he was going to do whatever he wanted to do. And because my dad at that time was in my parents' bedroom in a hospital bed, and he'd gone from 220 pounds down to 150 and literally was dying of cancer, he never got to experience anything of his ship coming in. It was good for my mom to be able to have that money for the next 23 years of her life. She lived till 93, and she did what I always think is the way to go. She went out like a light bulb, right? She didn't wither away like my dad did in the hospital bed. And I look at that and I think, you know, aging's inevitable. And I would argue for all of us having watched my dad that aging is actually a privilege. However, aging powerfully like what my mom did, that is a choice.